Quotes with exclusiveness

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• Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk.

  Austin O'Malley
  American writer, ophthalmologist and a professor of English literatur (1858 - 1932)
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• It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

  Calvin Trillin
  American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast slavery of solitary command!

  Herman Melville
  American author (1819 - 1891)
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Subjects in these quotes:

• characteristic
• tastelessness
• guinea-coast
• desolation
• weariness
• heaviness

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